"Brian" wrote in message
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True, but who cares? With fixed base routers, at one time or another
you'll
be handling the motor to adjust the height.

My point here was that with the large Milwaukee if you depress the coarse
adjustment knob, the router motor completely falls out of the base if
mounted under the table and you do not guard against this. The Bosch 1617
router is fixed base with coarse and fine tune adjustment and one of the
first with this style adjustment but the motor will not drop out of the base
when mounted upside down. The motor raises and lowers straight up and down
like the Milwaukee with out having to spin the motor round and round to make
height adjustments but to remove it from the base you have to turn the motor
in the base about 1/8 turn to remove it. Milwaukee should have had some
type of similar safety to prevent the motor from dropping out.

In the case of the Porter Cable
7518 (really the 2nd best option for a table IMO), you've got to spin and
spin and spin it to get it to height. Far less convenient than the
Milwaukee mechanism.

Agreed, and a very expensive setup as this router needs to be mounted with a
lift to be able to make coarse and fine adjustments quickly.


Speaking of convenience, plunging a router upside down seems to me to be
less than optimal.

Exactly, except the Triton has eliminated this trait. The router basically
converts to a fixed base like router with the twist of a lock knob. In the
hanging under a table position, you turn a lock in one of the handles and
then the router will no longer plunge. You then engage a release on the
handle and then turn the handle to raise or lower the motor. Let go of the
release on the knob and the motor locks in at that position and then you can
fine tune that position with another fine tune knob. No lifting at all on
your part.

And having to adjust the depth stop constantly would
annoy me, although if the Triton has a toolless adjustment that might be
better.

The Triton only needs a wrench to tighten or loosen the collet.

Does the Triton have a plunge spring defeat mechanism?

Sorta, it is designed so that you can easily remove the spring.

That would be desirable for use in a table.

Yes. I had to learn that 16 years ago with my 1611Bosch.

Though, I guess I just far prefer the ability to quickly coarse adjust
the motor to roughly where I want and then fine tune from there than deal
with a plunger under table. And the 5625-20
is ideal for that.

I wqas not going to buy a router that would not do exactly "that". The
Triton works exactly that way when in that "mode". Lock the adjustment
handle and the Triton converts back to the plunge style set up. Basically
Triton has come up with a router that works like a fixed base and plunge
base router.

By far the nicest table router I've used, but of course, not cheap.

I agree with you. I was actually going to buy the Milwaukee. I had copies
of competitors adds to bargain with, showing the price at $299. But then I
compared the Triton to it, both were side by side, and I felt the Triton was
better thought out. I have 1 year to see if the Triton lives up to the
hype. If it is not up to my expectations with actual use I will probably
exchange it for the big Milwaukee.


While the above table height
adjustment is a cool idea I can see the hole in the table top filling
with
saw dust and clogging the mechanism even though there is a plastic cover
that opens when you push an adjustment tool through it.

Perhaps. But as you noted in another post, the above table adjust isn't
terribly advantageous. I've never used it.

That's they way I see it.